hearing from you. I'm Ashley
SCOTT CAM: Mount Eliza, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria.
It's blue-chip real estate, especially when there's water views.
And on this year's Block, that would be an understatement.
MAN: You've got Port Phillip Bay
and then you've got Melbourne city as well.
It's breathtaking.
You might just be the luckiest Block contestants ever.
(CONTESTANTS EXCLAIM) WOMAN: We feel it, we feel it.
WYATT: The location and the view,
I believe this is going to be the best Block ever.
SCOTT: Then there's the houses -
three uptown trophy homes boasting uninterrupted water views
and two downtown residences with less views
but more floor space sprawling across two pavilions.
They'll each have four bedrooms,
four bathrooms...
and in roughly three months...
our teams will look a little more dishevelled.
Speaking of which... (DOG WHINES)
..in house one are South Australian station managers, Adam and Jolene.
We're probably old enough to be their parents.
(LAUGHS)
WOMAN: Hello!
(POP MUSIC PLAYS)
In house two are Gold Coast personal trainer Wyatt
an activewear designer Chantel.
(LAUGHS) I'm so nervous.
Side note - she has three young kids.
Stepping into a ready-made family, it was absolute chaos and I, like...
I think I've lost half my hair.
(LAUGHS)
In house three are best friends from Brisbane, Courtney and Sev...
Alright. Oh, my god!
What's this? What's going on here?
..who are a site manager...
I've renovated 110 bathrooms.
In three weeks. There you go.
..and an interior designer,
so they're the double threat.
(LAUGHS)
In four, we have this season's wholesome couple,
paramedic Lisa and FIFO worker Rosco from Western Australia.
LISA: Anything that we say or do in the next 12 weeks
cannot be used against each other in our marriage.
Agreed? Yeah. Agreed.
They come complete with adorable son Lando.
And in house five is the oldest Block contestant at 62,
Rick, a builder from Melbourne
and his personal trainer daughter Tayla, who needs no introduction.
Come on.
(SQUEALS)
What's up? OTHERS: Hello!
But, of course, the houses aren't allocated yet.
Whoever produces the best guest bedroom this week
gets to pick their address.
And the jury's still out on what the best address is.
Some believe the premium views give the uptown houses the edge...
Look at the view!
I'm definitely thinking that house one, two or three
may have the beautiful view of the water and the city.
Holy snapper.
That is a million-dollar view. You can't argue with that.
..while others are sold on the size advantage
of the downtown floor plans.
We would go with one of these guys
'cause I think a lot of people will overlook these two.
But if they want the choice,
first they've got to create the best guest bedroom.
If you win this week, you're potentially going to win The Block.
Gotta hit the ground running.
(HUMS)
Tonight...
Oh, my god. I don't know if this is gonna look good together.
..with only four days to reveal...
I'm gonna get this on because I actually do work on the tools.
..the guest bedrooms take shape...
All our walls are up, our ceiling's up.
..and some jump forward...
I feel like we're ahead of everyone else.
You're flying, mate.
..while others lag behind.
We're cutting it really fine.
Yeah. We're worried.
Are we already so far behind?
And a favourite house rises.
Just wondering if you might be able to send me through
the CAD drawings of house four.
We have a game-changer up our sleeve.
If we go up on house four, we will have the views that they have,
house one, two and three.
And because it's got the best floor plan...
We would be looking at house four.
A little bit sentimental with this...this house.
I love the feel of this house.
(BIRD CALLS)
(POP MUSIC PLAYS)
# Gotta move on... #
Thank you.
Thank you so much, Randy. Alright, now back to the job.
(POP MUSIC CONTINUES)
When we left site yesterday,
I had a feeling from the builders
that something just wasn't stacking up
and so they sort of felt a little overwhelmed with The Block.
I feel bad that, like, we come and get roasted
because we're nowhere near finished - we're behind.
Not finished, not finished, not finished, not finished.
Not finished. Gap. Bang.
We're blowing the budget. How many chippies you got?
We've got four on site at the moment.
Four?!
It probably feels like an attack on them.
Yeah.
So I feel like they're thinking "This is too overwhelming."
I won't blame them if they walk away or be angry at them.
I'll just be really sad.
If we can't convince them to stay
and, you know, like, keep on going with us,
it's definitely going to throw a huge spanner in the works.
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYS)
How you going? Yeah. Good. How are you guys?
Interior designer Sev, site manager Courtney and their builders...
are first in line for an insulation inspection this morning.
It's looking pretty good, first up. Yeah.
You're pretty confident I can call the plasterers at least
and get them on the hook for...? Yeah.
It's the neatest first inspection I've had today, or this week.
Thanks. Yep. Thank you, Tim.
I'm happy with your walls.
We're on the right track for the ceiling?
You are. Yeah. Cool.
But the walls are good. Well done. You're good to go.
Alright. Really appreciate that, Dan.
Well done.
One inspection. (LAUGHS)
That hasn't happened yet. Hasn't it?
No. That's good. Slow and steady wins the race.
All credit to my guys.
And, you know, we did lots of planning yesterday
which cut into our actual construction time.
And, you know, they're amazing guys.
Everything I've seen so far is perfect.
You know, I don't want to work with another team.
(TOOL WHINES)
I hope they stay. Me too. I hope they stay.
The stakes have never been higher.
Whoever comes up with the best guest bedroom this Sunday
gets their pick of the houses.
If they choose wisely and back it up with strong style and execution,
that could mean a win at auction too.
And I mentioned style because this year it's extra important.
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYS)
So a guest bedroom to be delivered on Sunday.
CONTESTANTS: Yep. DARREN: Listen up.
The brief is roughly white, light and bright.
The vibe in Mount Eliza is quiet luxury.
And if you don't know what quiet luxury looks like,
a good person to think about who is a billionaire
who lives in a quiet luxury home is Kim Kardashian.
So if you haven't looked up Axel Vervoordt,
do yourself a favour.
By Axel Verv(MUMBLES)
Alex Ver...
He's Dutch. Ver... He's Dutch.
Verd-wolf-wolf... Let's go Alex V.
Ver-dev... The Dutch designer.
Volkanovski. Sorry, what was his name?
Don't make me say it again, please.
High-end people like that
like to come home to a clean, quieter space.
(POP MUSIC PLAYS)
Everyone else is from cities, aren't they?
Well, I think so, yeah.
And we're a couple of bushies in here...
We're pretty rough. ..because we're...
Rough around the edges. Yeah.
And I don't think... I don't think even as we were driving up,
we had a style totally in our head.
I've got no style. No.
Never have. (LAUGHS)
So definitely winging that part of it.
So we're listening to the brief.
Light and bright, baby. Light and bright.
And it needs to be luxury... Luxe.
..so that it is in line with Mount Eliza and the market.
You're needing sort of a... Yeah.
..some... I'm liking the tone to that.
..linen of some sort?
It's very similar to sort of what we're going with.
It's nice, isn't it? Yeah. Mmm.
# Tell me how we're supposed to feel... #
Outback station manager Jolene
is paying close attention to Darren's brief
in her guest bedroom,
with a padded bedhead,
neutral bedding, travertine pendants and sconces
and an oak wardrobe featuring open shelving at one end.
So Chantel was at Snooze as well...
Alright, let me just check my list quickly.
..you know, passing but not really engaging.
And I was like, "Oh, I don't know if I'm gonna, you know,
"gel with all the girls."
Not in a bad way, just probably because of my age and, you know...
You can also get those in tallboys as well.
Yeah. ..lowboys and all those...
So, did have that moment.
Your boots are fine. That's what these are for.
Oh, OK. Cool. Here we go.
Everyone's just so busy. Mm-hm.
Nobody's taken a breath yet to work out who's who in the zoo
and what's going on and even to get to know each other.
Mmm. So that'll come.
OK.
(POP MUSIC PLAYS) Oooh. Alright.
SCOTT: Full-time mum and activewear designer Chantel
may be a former chippy...
(CAMERA CLICKS)
..but her focus is on the styling...
Oh, my god. I don't know if this is gonna look good together. Please.
Yeah, sweet.
..while her personal trainer partner Wyatt
oversees their guest bedroom build.
Darren gave us a nice brief,
which I think was very aligned with our...what we were doing anyway.
So it was light and bright.
I think he called it quiet luxury. Did he?
Quiet luxury.
Anyway, whatever he called it, it's luxury.
We have decided to go with more of an old luxury vibe -
that was on my mood board.
But I feel like it's pretty similar to kind of what he was saying,
so I don't feel too stressed about it.
Chantel's old twist on Darren's quiet luxury brief
will include plush carpet,
traditional moulding on the wall backing the bed,
beige wardrobes and lots and lots and lots of cushions.
There is so many cushions,
but you need to have a lot of cushions
because that's what makes it feel so homey
and so nice and like a warm hug.
You know, you go to hop into the bed
and you've got, like, 20 cushions to move.
You should be used to it at this point
with all the cushions we have at home.
(POP MUSIC PLAYS)
INTERVIEWER: How do you feel about pillows?
I love them. (LAUGHS)
I'm passionate about pillows.
So you've got to kind of fatten it up from the sides
and then put it in a position and then chop it,
you know, because it can't be flat and then chopped
'cause then it doesn't sit right.
You need the belly to come out.
I think the judges will complain there's too many cushions.
No, that's not true. You can never have too many cushions.
SCOTT: Just over 24 hours after setting foot on his first reno site,
Wyatt is fitting right in.
So one power point there. That power point.
And then just a switch here.
I'm feeling good. I feel very positive about where we're at.
It's much better than yesterday morning.
Do you know how to draw up a Truecore?
He sort of showed me,
but I've got to draw up a little plan here.
Leave it and go to the gym. (LAUGHTER)
That's what I was thinking. No, no, no...
But we're just currently putting the flooring down.
So all our walls are up, our ceiling's up.
Air con's in.
We've got Freedom coming to install.
Our cabinetry... It's going really well.
Wyatt, I think you're leading the race, mate.
Yeah.
Well, you're plastered up.
You'll be trowelling up pretty soon.
Have you got plasterers here? Yeah, they're ready to go.
So as soon as these guys are done, they'll be straight in,
hopefully plastering
and then sanding first thing tomorrow morning.
You'll be painting tomorrow. Yeah.
From what I've heard around,
I feel like we're ahead of everyone else, which makes me feel good,
you know what I mean,
'cause yesterday morning, I had no idea where to start, you know.
So to hear that now, yeah, that's good.
You're the only team I haven't passed yet for inso inspection.
Yep.
I'm getting a little bit... a little bit worried.
Yeah. So are we. Yep.
Yeah. We're worried.
We felt like we'd been kind of working really hard,
so how were we already so far behind?
I don't know what else to do.
(DOG WHINES) (THUNDER CRACKS)
(LAID-BACK COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYS)
JOLENE: So we currently manage three cattle properties
in the middle of South Australia
for an Aboriginal corporation.
The other fellas are going to rush out now.
Hey. Hey.
We are in the middle of the desert.
ADAM: We've got 1.3 million acres here.
So, yeah, the property's that big,
if you try to go along the southern boundary,
it would take you over half a day.
Yeah, you get a sore bum in the car, for sure.
There's always something to fix.
And you can't always take it to a mechanic.
You've got to learn to do it yourself.
Yes, we've project-managed infrastructure around here.
Yes, but nothing together, as in our own house or...
No, nothing. Yeah.
Why did we enter The Block? I... I just feel that...
we probably bring something totally different.
We entered The Block! Shh.
We're pretty tough and ready.
It would take a lot to break us.
(POP MUSIC PLAYS)
SCOTT: From 1.3 million acres
to house one's 13-square-metre guest bedroom,
station manager and former chippy Adam has got this covered.
Ads, mate. Hey, mate. How are you?
That's nice and neat, isn't it? Yeah. Come up alright.
Pass? Pass. Yeah, pass.
I'll just get in now and take some photos.
Nice one.
You're flying, mate.
# Come fly with me Let's fly, let's fly away... #
(MOBILE DEVICE BLEEPS)
Oh, I never know how to drive this.
Well, labour-wise, he's flying.
But technology-wise, he's grounded.
Oh, I'll ring him back.
Oh, dumb it down for me.
One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Breathe.
(EXHALES)
Cool. You got any hints on this? MAN: What is it?
A Google phone. What is it?
I can't even find out how to call someone on it.
Oh, who's... Oh, is that the phone they give you?
Yeah, yeah. There's the numbers.
Yeah, but I can't work out who just called me or nothing.
Jolene. Oh, I just did it.
Oi. What's going on, sister girl?
Hey.
Did you just ring me?
No. I texted you and said "Where's the water bottle?"
In the back of the car.
Oh, OK. They are.
Are you good? Yeah, yeah. All good.
Alright, carry on. As you were. Bye.
Bye.
SCOTT: Downtown in house five,
father-daughter duo, builder Rick and personal trainer Tayla.
TAYLA: Alright!
# Oh, yeah... #
They're from Mauritius, via Melbourne.
Born in Mauritius. Arrived in Australia when I was two years old.
And Dad saved enough money for us to fly us over
and, you know, start our lives over here.
So it's a journey that we've... you know, we're blessed to have.
Mauritian culture is just fun. Dance. Love the dance.
# Oh, yeah. #
It's pretty much a reggae.
It's all that movement.
It's all from here. It's all in the hips.
Dancing, dancing.
Eating, eating, eating. They love a drink.
Sun. Beach. Eating. Dancing. Sun. Beach. Yeah.
Pretty much. It's pretty much... That's... That's it in a nutshell.
Like this. Bang, bang and bang, bang, bang and bang. Let's go.
When we win the first room... Yeah. Every time we win, bang.
..the music's coming on. Yeah.
How's that? Love that.
Can you do that? (LAUGHS)
Yeah.
Three, two, one. Tap, tap and down. Ready?
Tap, tap and up.
Tap, tap and see you later. Uh...
SCOTT: They may be loud,
but they're sticking to Darren's quiet-luxury style brief.
Got this.
Style of the guest bedroom - light, white and bright,
with some neutral colours and travertine.
And that includes a cocoon-like bed with bedside tables,
travertine sconces, a swivel occasional chair
and an artwork from Artist Lane.
(STATELY MUSIC PLAYS)
INTERVIEWER: Let's get into some detail.
Have you guys got a builder?
I'm the builder.
(PLAYFUL MUSIC)
But I'm fortunate enough that... probably got a bit of advantage
'cause all my trades are Melbourne-based and I know them all.
So, Mitch is my chippy and he's my neighbour.
Right across the road. Yeah, we're good mates.
(PLAYFUL MUSIC) (TOOL WHINES)
Not that I'm looking, but we're probably ahead of everyone else.
And I only had one... one tradie yesterday.
Rosco had three chippies in there, and if that's hourly,
there's probably two and a half grand there on first day.
Oh, is there? Yeah, it's... (BLEEP). Yeah.
Not that I was looking.
Tay, can you find a rubbish... a bucket?
And I'm also a chippy. Yeah.
Not by trade. Yeah.
I've got my tool belt, by the way. So I'm gonna get this on.
That's really big. It's too big.
They didn't have smaller. I'll get it sorted.
Just got to make a safe workplace, you know.
Can't have cords hanging around everywhere.
Personally...
That's not high enough, first of all.
Second of all, just go like that.
And then, all of a sudden, safety.
What's happening? Do you like my work I did there?
Well. Not here. Well, yeah, here because we need it there.
But I did that. I... Is it safe? What did you do?
I hung the... I got it... I got the cord, got it tagged and...
Oh, you got a tag? Got a tag. Of course I did.
So you can use it. Yeah.
But this is battery. Yeah, no, for the...
(LAUGHTER) Dan...
That's great. But we actually don't need it.
MAN: Gotcha.
Thanks, Matt. Wardrobes are good to go.
Thank you.
(LAUGHTER)
(LAID-BACK POP MUSIC PLAYS)
SCOTT: Next door, paramedic Lisa and FIFO worker Rosco
are still finding their feet.
Your tool shed set-up is sexy. Is it?
Yeah. I'm into it.
It's a feeling of, like, a lot of responsibility on your shoulders
to create something beautiful,
because so many people have gone to such great effort
to make this happen.
Channel Nine is trusting us with a lot of their money.
And it's adding up. $250,000 in cash...
Along with a 250-grand budget...
$40,000...
..and a 40-grand Bunnings Power Pass,
I also gifted them...
These are your famous Block Bucks.
WOMAN: Oh, this is good.
And you are so lucky that you have so many sponsors
that are willing to support you. Oh, wow.
There's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds.
Do you know how much Block Bucks are in here?
How much?
There is $500,000.
Holy shit balls.
COURTNEY: Literally $500,000 in Block Bucks.
Yeah. Amazing. It's unbelievable.
On top of our already 250 from CommBank,
that's almost $800,000.
That's $790,000. Mmm.
I mean, I reckon you should be able to build a good house.
ROSCO: It's a little overwhelming.
And I think in regards to competition,
obviously the first thing you hear is Rick's a builder.
So that's always a little bit confronting to hear,
you're up against a builder.
And I know that Sev's an interior designer,
so that's also a massive advantage.
I don't really know too much about everyone else's experience.
(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS)
We're definitely up against stiff competition.
And where we are thrown is after Darren's comment
specifically about wood panelling...
The buyer here doesn't like rustic. They don't like dark.
They don't like a whole bunch of timber panelling.
..because we do enjoy a wood panel
and our builder Chris,
he did mention that he does
quite a lot of timber in the area.
So we have two very differing opinions from two different people
who we respect their opinion a lot.
So, what do we do?
Just do, like...like a little solid square dressed timber...
Yeah. That's what I want. Yeah.
..that'll suit the style that you're going for.
It is quite modern.
So I think where we land is we might tone down the timber
while still keeping our palette quite clean and crisp.
SCOTT: To achieve their vision,
Lisa and Rosco have decided to take a risk with the timber panelling.
(POP MUSIC PLAYS)
Opposite will be a textured feature wall
and they're building an oval-shaped niche with shelving.
LISA: The egg-shaped niche,
that's just to give a little point of difference
from a room with just four walls.
Do I have to do it in here, these holes? I do, right?
MAN: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just...
How you going? DAN: Checking.
So it is... What are we? We're 8:00 Thursday.
Yeah.
You're the only team I haven't passed yet for inso inspection.
OK. Yep.
I'm getting a little bit... a little bit worried.
Yeah. Don't worry. Yep.
Yeah. We're worried.
We felt like we'd been kind of working really hard.
So how were we already so far behind?
So other teams are, like, full plastering and everything.
Yep. OK.
Yesterday was sort of a nice day, a nice first day on site.
But today they are falling behind the rest of the competition.
How can we speed it up? We can't. We're literally going 200.
Yeah. We don't have to do that, though, right?
Yeah. Do that 'cause we're gonna get a wrap.
We're gonna wrap the outside, so we need this.
Insulate it now? Yes, please.
Alright. No worries. We'll do that now.
Alright.
Can we move this?
Alright.
Have you got plasterers booked today at all?
Yeah. We've got Sam. Sam. Sam. OK.
Yep.
LISA: I think we've just learnt that there's a flow-on effect
because if you don't have your insulation,
you can't do your plastering.
And it makes me feel really frantic.
It's a bit of a (BLEEP)show.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYS)
And then we find out that we don't have enough ceiling batts
to complete the ceiling.
I've already called CSR and been, like,
"I don't know why it's taking so long to just find out..."
We need it. Like, we need it now... I know.
..otherwise we're not putting plaster on today.
Yeah, I know, I don't know what else to do.
(DOG WHINES AND SQUEALS) (THUNDER CRACKS)
# Mummy don't know Daddy's getting hot at the Body Shop
# Doing something unholy... #
(DANCE POP PLAYS)
DAN: What's happening?
We just need more bags so we can get your sign off. We've run out.
OK.
SCOTT: It's now midmorning Thursday,
less than four days to the all-important guest bedroom reveal.
House four's build is at a standstill
over a shortage of two bags of insulation batts.
So we've established there's not enough ceiling batts here...
Yep. Yes.
..on site. I could cry.
It's alright if you cry. Don't cry. Don't...
That won't get the ceiling batts. Too early to cry yet.
Yeah, yeah.
Makes sense to me that you cut a deal next door with Rick
and finish yours off. OK.
(POP MUSIC PLAYS)
Looks like we're going to get some bags out of here
within probably three or four hours. OK. Alright.
We have to cut a deal. OK.
We couldn't borrow from house one, two or three
because they had a different insulation requirement.
Hey, Ricko. Yeah.
How many bags have you got of insulation?
I've got... I've only got two there and two up the back.
We're not gonna have enough of that.
They've only got four bags too, so we're both short.
Neither of us can finish.
Alright. All good.
I'll figure something out.
We're all short of batts. Ceiling batts.
So it's a huge concern.
What I'm feeling like, you two guys have got to get together
and it's better off finishing one room
instead of both of youse having half-finished...
Yeah, OK.
..while we're trying to get more here.
Yeah. OK. That's how I'm feeling.
OK. That's...
You feel... Let some go.
(PLAYFUL MUSIC)
OK, I'll just try and knock without knocking.
(PLAYFUL MUSIC CONTINUES)
Hey, Ricko.
Hello?
Ricko!
I end up finally working up the courage to say "Hey, Rick.
"I really just need this insulation."
They've got more batts on the way. Yep.
Are you OK... They're two hours away.
Are you OK if I grab a couple of bags while they...
Yeah, go. Is that alright?
Yeah, yeah. Alright. Thanks, Rick.
As long as they're two hours away. Yeah, yeah.
Cool. Thank you, mate. Thank you.
Cheers. Alright, we got them. We're in.
Yeah, we're not ready.
We're probably a couple of hours away and he's...
I think they're...sheeting, so we've gotta help him out.
Alright.
There we go.
We've got a win.
He was great.
He was kind enough to give us those bags of insulation.
LISA: Had they not lent us two of their bags,
we were otherwise standing around just waiting.
Small wins. Small wins.
It's a challenge, but I just hope they repay the favour.
SCOTT: Meanwhile, house three's Courtney and Sev
are facing their first major dilemma -
how to turn a blue wardrobe beige
in order to fit Darren's light, white and bright style brief.
We both just looked at each other and said
"We have to micro-cement over the top."
So, micro-cementing is a beautiful finish
that it's got a sand base to it
and I thought that was actually quite reminiscent
of the beautiful sandy beaches of Mornington Peninsula.
But we still don't have
a micro-cementing contractor locked in.
We had faith. Let's make this happen.
And, yeah, just push it.
# Oh, girl, I like you, I do... # (CAMERA CLICKS)
# I want to be your friend Go shopping in a Benz... #
Sev and I met at work, gosh, like, 12 years ago now.
# Can you fit me in your plans? I like you, I do... #
And within a year we were best mates.
Yeah. Sev is the glamour.
I am... I don't want to say bogan
because people think, "Oh, she's putting herself down,"
but I'm a bogan.
(CAMERA CLICKS) (LAUGHTER)
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYS)
Our side hobby is definitely renovating houses.
Yeah. We're motivated, we're creative.
Sev and I are obsessed with joinery.
And what I'm really looking forward to with The Block
is just something of an open canvas,
that we can put our own sort of flair onto it.
We're a team and I want to be able to make sure
that what we pull together
is a reflection of both of us.
Oh, wish me luck.
MAN: (ON PHONE) Hello. Stefan speaking.
Hi, Stefan. My name's Sev.
I am a contestant on The Block and...
Yep.
..I am reaching out to see whether you could micro-cement some joinery
that we're wanting to finish.
Yeah, sure. We can get there. No worries.
We can just make it happen.
SCOTT: What Sev didn't mention
is it's not just the joinery she wants micro-cemented
but rather the entire room.
There'll be a light timber ceiling feature
and she's making her own bedhead with sconces on either side
and a marble cap on top.
I came out to these guys
because I really want a natural marble cap
for the top of our custom bedhead that we're doing.
We want to put a detail of luxury in there.
And, you know, what screams out luxury? Natural stone.
I just wanted to see whether I could hassle you for some Taj Mahal.
I'm after a little skinny plank. Yeah.
Just 20mm. Yep.
I want to put it on top of a... upholstered bedhead nib wall
to sort of cap it off on the top.
So we've got a 3835 length. Yep.
Did I tell you when I need it by? No.
I need it on Saturday. Saturday.
Saturday afternoon. There goes my Saturday.
It's a bit of an expensive bougie detail,
but I think it'll be something
that the end buyer will really appreciate,
especially if it's going to run through the house.
This morning I thought, "We'll smash this."
"We'll have this stopped up and finished by 1:00."
But it's not looking good.
So we're at a standstill right now.
That's not good. No.
And tools down at 6:00.
So we're cutting it really fine.
(DOG WHINES AND SQUEALS) (THUNDER CRACKS)
(POP MUSIC PLAYS)
Just got a bit of a schedule that we can just all work to for,
like, the rest of the week.
Just a bit of a mini program that's easily visible.
I am a site manager in commercial construction.
Alright. I just want to go through a quick toolbox talk with everyone.
# We got the beat # We got the beat... #
I'm not really sure when I'm going to disclose it,
but I'm going to try and keep it under wraps.
If they knew how strong she was,
they'd be like, "Oh, let's be very, very scared."
They just think she's Courtney in admin.
Um, just a quick question... How are you?
Do you have any spare C channels?
Do you know what a C channel is? Yeah. (LAUGHS)
Do you actually? 'Cause I don't.
She goes, "Do you even know what a C channel is?" (LAUGHS)
I imagine it's just a channel that looks like a C.
Because she thinks I'm an administrator.
It's one of these metal things. I'll show you.
Metal things. Oh.
That's a C channel there.
It's good, though, because that was a good reminder that
"Oh, yeah, I don't know what it is," you know what I mean?
Thanks. Why does your garage look so good? Do you have tools?
Yeah, they're packed away.
Yeah. That looks... Who did that? You?
Yeah. The guys.
Me and the guys. I want my garage to look like that.
(LAUGHS)
But, yes, we...we had enough so we were able to give her some.
I love you, Court. Thanks, babe. Love you, Tay.
Sharing is caring!
WOMAN: Is there anyone more qualified to win The Block than you two?
Ooh. We haven't met them yet. (LAUGHS)
SCOTT: Interior designer Sev has brought a handy work tool with her.
She's using CAD, a computer-aided design software, to create her room.
It's my secret weapon, I think.
Other people might have laptops, but I don't know if they've got CAD,
which gives me the flexibility to be able to mock up what we want to do
and it really helps me articulate to the boys, yeah, where we need to go
and hopefully that'll give us the advantage.
Hey, mate. How are you?
Mate, well, we're up here on site
and I have Courtney, contestant, right next to me.
Hello.
Site manager, but no-one knows that, so we'll keep that quiet.
I was just wondering...
So right now we are in house three
and we are really gunning for house four.
But I was just wondering if you might be able to send me through
the CAD drawings of house four.
Oh, really?
# There's something about house four
# I don't know what it is But I want it, I need it
# I have to have it
# House four Give it to me now
# House four... #
So the house we want is number four
and the reason why we want it
is because it's got the best floor plan.
We noticed quickly that four and five have much better floor plans,
but they're a bit sunken in
and that's when we instantly had a light bulb moment
where we are, like, "OK, we have a game-changer up our sleeve."
We actually want to go up another storey
because that will then allow us to have a beautiful rooftop terrace.
And if we go up on house four,
we will have the views that they have
in house one, two and three.
Wow. That's never happened. That's pretty cool, isn't it?
I don't think anyone's ever got a soft copy of plans sent to them
emailed. Yeah.
We don't want house four. We need house four.
Yep. We know what we want.
Yep.
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Courtney and Sev aren't the only ones
who've seen the potential in tweaking the architect's plans for house four.
# Gotta get back in time... #
INTERVIEWER: You've got an idea for a bit of a secret weapon. What is it?
Secret? What secret?
INTERVIEWER: So, at this stage, which house are you leaning towards?
The thing is, if we win this challenge
and if we can go up another level,
we would be looking at house four.
Can we have a quick little word too? SCOTT: Yes. Yes.
Just a little secret squirrel. Yes.
Is council regs... Can we put a...go up another...
Well, you know what, we'll ask the question for you.
OK. Yeah.
Luckily, the current residents of house four, Lisa and Rosco,
had advice from a real estate agent yesterday...
Oh, nice to meet you. Rosco.
..they'd be better off in one of the uptown houses.
I think the house that Rosco and Lisa should be going for
should be house three.
I think it's got the impressive views.
It's also got a nice green screen on the left-hand side
and a bit more privacy on that left-hand side as well.
Also, because of the sheer scale of that upstairs space.
That is impressive.
But that was yesterday.
DAN: And are we falling in love with this house?
Oh... If you win, what are you thinking?
Oh, I'm still tossing up. So, initial gut feel was three.
But I love the feel of this house.
So... Yeah.
Definitely getting a little bit connected,
a little bit sentimental with this this house.
And, you know, when you put so much effort into a room,
you start getting a little bit attached.
(BIRD CALLS)
# The morning light is turning blue The feeling is bizarre
# The night is almost over I still don't know where you are
# The shadows, yeah, they keep me pretty like a movie star
# The daylight makes me feel like Dracula... #
# Dracula
# Run from the sunlight Dracula
# Isn't the view spectacular? #
Yeah, I think this will be the best Block.
Because we've got the best view ever.
We've got a great location.
We are the luckiest contestants ever.
Mmm. But it is not the easiest. Why?
We've got site hours here.
Monday to Friday, 7:00 till 6:00
and Saturday 9:00 till 3:00.
The hours are quite scary.
Knowing that they worked till midnight last year,
that's quite scary.
But we're going to make it work. I'm just going to...
head down and arses up.
Yeah. That's it.
# Tall and tan and young and lovely
# The girl from Ipanema goes walking
# And when she passes Each one she passes goes "Ah." #
# Go, Ricky! Go, Ricky! Go, Ricky! Go, Ricky! Go, Ricky! #
This morning I thought, "We'll smash this.
"We'll have this stopped up and finished by 1:00."
But it's not looking good.
House four approached me this morning
and asked me for two bags of insulation
to finish their ceiling off
and we hadn't started ours yet,
so I thought, "Do the right thing and nice thing
"and just just give them the two bags."
But the thing is,
the guys said the insulation would be here two hours ago.
# Go, Ricky! Go, Ricky! #
We're standing around waiting and we don't have insulation.
Rick, how are you, mate? Good, Dan.
Excuse me. I did the right thing and give house four two bags.
Yes, I know. Probably would have finished it.
So we're at a standstill right now. Mmm.
That's not good. No.
We're in limbo until it gets here
because the plasterers are struggling.
They've got nothing else to do but just to wait.
And I've got to cop it on the chin and just pay for it.
So we've got a delivery coming.
Hopefully that's... No... No insulation in that.
So... (LAUGHS)
Yeah, I feel that we're, you know,
probably a couple of hours behind now
than where we should be
'cause they should have sheeted by now and tools down at 6:00,
so we're cutting it really fine.
# This is exciting... #
Hello. This is divine.
Tell me what you need. What do you need?
White. White. White. White.
White? Yes.
And white what? Like, what room are you doing?
So we're doing the guest bedroom. Mm-hm.
Need pillows and doonas and... So, doona.
Yeah? Yes.
Well, you could do this in the... Yeah. Beautiful.
..in the queen.
Yep. Love. Yeah.
OK, great. But I do need knicky-knackies too.
So. Knicky-knacky things. Knicky-knackies for the side table.
Knicky-knackies being little things
that you put on your little side tables and stuff.
We call them knickknacks. But knicky-knackies is you.
Knicky-knackies is what I call them. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Things that align with...
Yep. ..this sort of colour vibe.
Mm-hm. Something like that one.
# I can shop # I can shop
# It's shop time # Let's shop
# Yeah, let's shop # Sheets
# Doonas # Sheets
# Doonas # Knicky-knackies there... #
There happened to be this vase, but it's a trophy.
The trophy. The trophy.
'Cause it's the trophy-winning room. I need that, please.
You need the trophy? Yes.
It's a sign.
Awesome!
Yes, please.
So I got it. We got the winning trophy.
This is the trophy for my winning room.
Can you believe it?
And it even has a plant, which is just me all over. It's a sign.
It's a sign.
(LAUGHS) Thank you, everyone.
I'd like to thank the Academy. (APPLAUSE)
# Lose control
# Bass line Melody's got me... #
Here it is.
(LAUGHS)
WOMAN: What is it? Insulation.
Yeah, the insulation didn't rock up until late.
How are you, buddy?
MAN: Good.
MAN: Hey, you're back. (BLEEP).
Two hours later. Oh, sorry, mate.
No... Yeah, no, it's alright.
Immediately, your sort of stomach drops
because yours is in the ceiling... Mmm.
..and there's nothing really you can do now.
We feel terrible that Rick and Tayla,
they'd lent some of theirs to us.
Oh, so this is for house five? Yeah, but we borrowed theirs.
So give him a hand to take it down. Wow. OK.
You sort of start tallying up favours in your mind about,
"OK, they've helped us with this, this."
Yeah. "Make sure we help back."
RICK: Got it. Thank you.
We were looking good this morning, but it's not...
Not good. It's not good.
It is what it is, you know.
Being a nice guy has bitten me in the arse, so...
Alright, Ricko. OK.
Oh, good. We got the inso in.
I'm a bit nervous about time. Yeah.
Two coats...and they're two base and one top, we have to do.
Yeah.
A little bit anxious about time because we're running out of time.
The plasterers are... We haven't got a coat on the wall yet.
You want to measure... You want to measure up? Yeah?
So it's just that drying process that it's got to go through.
Yep. The door.
Moving forward, this is a competition.
It's not going to happen again.
(DOG WHINES AND SQUEALS) (THUNDER CRACKS)
(DREAMY POP MUSIC PLAYS)
SCOTT: Mount Eliza is postcard-perfect
in the golden hour before sunset.
Not that anyone in the five Block houses would notice.
# Baby, this love I'll never let it die... #
They're trying to get as much plaster on the walls as possible
before the 6pm lockout.
Thanks to Rick's generosity,
house four has caught up,
with plaster almost finished.
Wow, we've got jambs on. We're getting there.
House five is a bit behind them, with more coats needed.
How are you doing? MAN: It'll dry.
This looks sexual.
House three is also in need of more coats.
So that whiteboard now is lying to me. I'm getting lied to.
I know. I'm about to update it.
You would be fine if we weren't getting kicked off at 6pm.
House one is almost completely plastered.
We're going alright. We're tracking along alright.
I'm never comfortable until it's totally finished.
And in house two...
The wardrobes look good, hey?
I hadn't seen inside yet.
No, I haven't seen inside yet. I'm getting food.
Oh. Right. (LAUGHS)
..Wyatt is celebrating being fully plastered
with his eighth Youfoodz meal of the day.
(PLAYFUL MUSIC)
Alright, ten minutes we're closing the gates.
Alright. Thanks, Dan.
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So, Dan's locking up the Block today.
He come around to give us the ten minute, you know, like, "Get out."
6pm, tools down. So we parked up.
Clocked out for the day. Clocked out?
All over it. Thanks, guys.
We got a couple of these to get rid of, though.
Got a new one each meal.
# I'm beggin', beggin' you... # One for the road.
Let's go. Pack it up.
Let's go. Five minutes. You can hear Dan counting down.
"Get out!" We start...
"Shutting the gates." ..to...yeah, to the gate.
One minute!
We're all standing there, all talking,
and he's like, "Shut the gates."
And we realised the girls are still inside...
WOMAN: OK. Courtney's coming.
..with their car.
Uh... (BLEEP).
Where's my laptop? Did I bring anything?
I'm going, "Oh, what's gonna happen here?
"Are they gonna follow through with this 6:00 lock the gate rule?"
Hard out.
Courtney, do you have the Hard Yakka bag?
No. Guys, guys, just... Just...
Yes, they are.
Hope they don't need their car tonight.
And then Dan comes over.
"Hey, girls. Girls.
"What... What kind of time do you call this?"
Are we sleeping over?
At 6:00 means 6:00 hard out.
Not 6:01, 6:02.
The gates are locked.
You're gonna have to get a lift with someone.
Right.
Let's get the ply... Get this out, Sev, and we'll get a lift.
You have to ring Adam and Jolene. They're at the front.
He said "Adam and Jolene are waiting out at the front.
"You can go and see if they will take you home."
I'm not going in the car with the competition,
so I call Sammy from GYP, our plasterer, and say,
"Hey, mate, where are you?"
And he goes "On my way home. Why?"
And I said, Dan's locked our car in. Come pick us up."
Oh, legends. How good!
Goodnight, everyone. Are you in?
Yeah. Goodnight. Thank you.
Bye. (LAUGHS) Oh, man.
(LAUGHS)
Oh, man.
How did we go?
(SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYS)
OK.
OK? You alright? Yeah.
How are you?
First few nights without Lando...
uh, yeah, are not good at all.
Stuck. You're stuck?
Through the day, it's OK, when we're busy and doing things.
It's when you get home and me and Lise being together, we're meant...
He's meant to be there with us.
I'm not used to being separate...
being together but separate from...separated from him.
What's that? It's a camera.
He's just watching you. Just taking some pictures.
# And all I can taste is this moment
# And all I can breathe is your life... #
Alright, let's go.
At this point, I'm barely able to even do, like,
a video call or anything like that, 'cause then I don't...
I definitely don't sleep. I just get a really bad sick feeling.
So, yeah, it's not good. Yeah.
LISA: And Lando hasn't really understood it very well.
So you can kind of see his face.
He looks at the camera and he sees Mum and Dad
and then he kind of gets a bit confused.
And his bottom lip drops.
And he drops his bottom lip and then he...he cries.
So seeing Mum and Dad together... Makes him cry.
..without him there is hard.
I need hotspot for this.
# And I don't want the world... # There we go.
# To see me
# 'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
# When everything's made to be broken
# I just want you to know who I am... #
He can't understand why we're together and he's not with us.
'Cause when we're together, he's with us.
Yeah. So it's really hard.
Yeah, it's really hard seeing him upset.
Yeah. And we're the reason why he's upset.
Like, um... (CRIES)
Lisa's a lot better when she says...
So she'll get off the call
and she's like, "Right, hon, this is why we've got to smash this."
(CRIES)
What's all this?
This is styling? Styling.
But at the end of the day, we're here for a competition.
We're here to win... Yeah.
..and we're doing it for him.
$1,153, hon. I didn't know it was that much.
# Understand... # Oh, well.
# When everything's made to be broken
# I just want you to know who I am
# I just want you to know who I am. #
SCOTT: Tomorrow night... You always get there in the end.
Yeah, well, if you make the deadlines.
You don't always get there in the end. That's a lie. (LAUGHS)
Mostly you don't get there, to be fair. (LAUGHS)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS)
..the final 48 hours...
Oh, there's so much pressure.
..can make or break rooms...
You know, Shell, the doors that are here are navy blue,
so they're getting a Venetian plaster put on the doors.
What?
Maybe it might not be quiet luxury.
It might be a little bit loud luxury.
..and push teams...
INTERVIEWER: How are you feeling?
I'm frustrated.
I don't know.
..to the limit.
I don't know what the (BLEEP) I'm doing, by the way.
It's all good. Is it?
DAN: Why have they done that?
Well...
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That's not good.
It's not good.